A NJ Star Ledger report outlines some of the plans for tonight’s game. Some of the highlights:
- Eli Manning and the starters (despite the fact that ten of them won’t play), will play only about 25 plays tonight
- Anthony Wright, not David Carr will be the second quarterback in tonight’s game. Carr will only enter as a fourth QB if there are enough snaps for Wright, and third-stringer Andre Woodson.
No surprise with the information on the starters, but a bit of a shocker with the Carr decision. Carr and Wright performed equally as well last preseason game. One would think Carr’s upside (even if he was a bust, he was the first overall pick) would outweigh Wright’s experience (which is a euphemism for being old). Don’t really understand this, and hopefully someone asks Coughlin about it later tonight.
Note: Former backup, Tim Hasselbeck is pictured because him, and his amazingly attractive wife, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, are much more aesthetically pleasing than either Carr or Wright.